Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-12-01
PENlNSUlAR POINTERS.


order of the commanding officer at Fort
Wayne. lie was taken to Fort Mackinac
to wait development from headquarters
Fred Dodge. the young man of Leslie
who was recently so terribly wounded by
the accidental discharge of gun while
hunting, is now in fair way to recover,
though his power of speech is evidently
gone forever. lie can take no food ex-
cept through tube placed i'm his mouth,
large portion of his jaw being shot
away.
Anna Lyden, aged l., domestic with
John L. Travis of Travis Station, Kala-
ma2oo county, was preparing breakfast
when her clothes caught fire, burning her
horribly. She has one chance in ten for
reoOvery. Mr.. Travis was also badly
burned in trying to smother the flames.
Hon. Dan l.. Crossman, clerk of the
Michigan house of representatives Is
alb ut to move to California.
The state horticultural soc ety and the
Michigan beekeepers' association will be
in session at East Saginaw December
Clio.
Over 40 grangers have taken the high
er degrees of the order during the meeting
of the national grange at Lansing.
Frederick Smith. a pioneer of Saginaw,
died suddenly the other night while sitting
at the supper table.
Ezra adue, employed at at the Mar
shall house in East Saginaw, was found
dead in bed the other morning. lie served
during the war in Go. l, FOrty-Seyenth
Ohio, and had just been granted pension.
Leslie wants a brick yard and Farwell
needs planning mill.
The Hon. Latham Hull, one Of the
wealthiest and most respected citizens of
Kalamazoo, died OH the goth inst.
The purchase of the Port Huron 4
Northwestern by the +. & Z. M. is again
reported.
1t cost Peter Hill of Newaygo S92 to
hunt deer with hounds.
The second attempt to convict the sa-
loon keepers for selling liquor within one
mile of the soldiers home resulted the
same as the first.
The two-year old child of Frank Morrell
of Newaygo, drank carbOlc acid and died
in about five minutes.
Mrs. Daniel johnson, for the past six
years postmstress at Whom, is dead,
Her husband, Daniel Johnson, plated the
town Of Milwaukee in Saginaw county.
j. NJ. Longyearo Marquette, has offered
three prizes of So each, and three of $50
each, to be competed for by students of the
Michigan mining school, by essays on sub
jects of practical use in the work of de-
veloping the mineral resources of Michi-
gan.
Engine No. 1870, of the Michigan Cen
trail railway, drew train from jackson
to Michigan City, a distance of 156 miles,
in III minutes, and engineer James Moore
who handled the throttle OH the run, says
he can lower his record If they want him
TO do it. 1t is thus far the best that has
been done on the road.
Nearly all of the Saginaw river mills
have shut down.
Frank p. Smith of Stanton shot 400
pound bear in Mecosta county.
The arson case against jim Carr of Har-
risOn resulted in his acquittal.
James Abs of Carrolton was instantly
killed a few days ago by falling from the
dock and striking his head on the rail of
the steamer w. X. Burt.
Last September Milton G. Lewis of
Muskegon caused the arrest of George
Mcqueen on charge of embezzlement.
Mcqueen has brought suit for $40, 900 dam
ages for false imprisonment
The Babcock corn planter factory at
Adrian, was badly damaged by fire the
other day.
Mrs. Getshell, wife of the pastor of the
Universalist church of Tecumseh, has
brought suit for divorce against her hus-
band because he claimed that his mar
riage vows gave him the right to admins
ter corporal punishment when he thought
she needed It,
Delmer Hunt of Climax, Kalamazoo
county, has gone to Nicaragua as one of
the engineers of the proposed ship canal.
A party of hunters from Kalamazoo
county, killed five deer in Lake county,
and a bear weighing $50 pounds.
Frederick Simons of Orleans, who is
pulling stumps for Richard Miller of
Greenville, while at work found under a
stump tin box in which there were
twenty one dollar pieces and ninety half
dollar pieces. From appearances the
treasure must have been under the stump
a long while.
Elijah Walker, colored, was convicted
i'm the United States court at Grand Rapids
recently of retailing liquor without paying
the special tax. He was sentenced to the
house of correction at Iona for six months
and fined 500.
III. w. Sage, who owns large mill at
West Bay City, has recently purchased
1000 acres Of government pine and hard
wood lands in Taylor county, VS.. Mr..
Sage also owns large tract of hardwood
lands in Upper Michigan and his pine
holdings are extensive. He has operated
a mill at West Bay City for over 20 years.
The president and secretary of the
southeastern Michigan q. A. X. Associa-
tion have issued call for meeting OF
the executive committee, to he held in
Adrian OH Friday, December 30, 1887 at
/ o'clock p. M, for the purpose of locat-
ing the place and fixing the time of hold
ing the next annual encampment, and
transacting such other business as may
properly come before the meeting.
David Morgan, a Berrlen county farmer,
has been convicted in the United States
court at Grand Rapids of sending obscene
literature through the mail and sentenced
to one year at IOnia and fined 500. Bust.
ness men of Berrien Springs petitiOned
the court to be lenient, as he bore good
reputation and the crime was committed
In moment of frenzy. The Judge i'm